Because Janie has more experience with people from her own race, she is better able to recognize people from her own race and tends to show a bias in perceiving persons from other racial and ethnic groups. This illustrates
a. the apparent-distance hypothesis.
b. the other-race effect.
c. color blindness.
d. the psi phenomena.
B
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Kevin just read an authoritative study that shows that a stock's current price on the stock market is completely unrelated to its previous price. In other words, if a stock does well one week, it may or may not do well the next week. However, Kevin still only wants to sell stocks of his whose price increased over the last several weeks because he thinks they are more likely to reverse themselves the next week. Kevin is guilty of
A. the gambler's fallacy. B. unrealistic confidence. C. the anchoring heuristic. D. the availability heuristic.
According to Sternberg, love relies on three primary elements: intimacy, __________, and commitment
a. affection b. passion c. cognition d. respect
Evolutionary psychology is built on the assumption that
A. sexual selection is the primary contributor to human behavior. B. behavior, just like physical features, can be adaptive. C. human cognitive abilities resulted from different evolutionary mechanisms than other traits. D. evolutionary pressures are greater in humans than other animals.
According to the evolutionary perspective, why do dolphins have fins while cows have legs?
A) Cows are mammals while dolphins are not. B) Cows are vertebrates and dolphins are invertebrates. C) Fins are better suited to an underwater environment. D) Dolphins are too heavy to be able to walk with legs.